mm: save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages

Andy Lutomirski reported that if a page with _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY bit set
get swapped out, the bit is getting lost and no longer available when
pte read back.

To resolve this we introduce _PTE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY bit which is saved in
pte entry for the page being swapped out.  When such page is to be read
back from a swap cache we check for bit presence and if it's there we
clear it and restore the former _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY bit back.

One of the problem was to find a place in pte entry where we can save
the _PTE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY bit while page is in swap.  The _PAGE_PSE was
chosen for that, it doesn't intersect with swap entry format stored in
pte.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 2f47ade..2a7e0d1 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -417,6 +417,21 @@ static inline pmd_t pmd_mksoft_dirty(pmd_t pmd)
 {
 	return pmd;
 }
+
+static inline pte_t pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(pte_t pte)
+{
+	return pte;
+}
+
+static inline int pte_swp_soft_dirty(pte_t pte)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline pte_t pte_swp_clear_soft_dirty(pte_t pte)
+{
+	return pte;
+}
 #endif
 
 #ifndef __HAVE_PFNMAP_TRACKING